Abstract

SEDENO GUILLEN, Kevin. Non-simultaneous Independences and the Meeting of Colonial Memories: The Literary Criticism "[...] de patria dudosa [...]" of Rafael María Merchán (1844-1905). rev.estud.soc. [online]. 2012, n.42, pp.138-151. ISSN 0123-885X.

This article contributes to the history of Cuban and Colombian literary criticism at the end of the 19^th century. It analyzes Rafael María Merchán's Estudios críticos (1886), written and published during the author's exile in Colombia, and suggests that this kind of transnational Cuban-Colombian-Spanish American corpus is positioned within, and is the result of, the negotiations between coloniality and post-coloniality in the late 19^th century. Its findings show that the important critical legacy of Merchan - trapped between the tangles of Cuba's colonial situation and a post-colonial, post-independent Colombia - constitutes an unclaimed inheritance in the history of Spanish American (and especially Cuban and Colombian) literature.

Keywords : Continental Spanish American Independence Movements; Literary criticism; Cuba; Colombia; Nineteenth Century.

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